00:00
00:00
MrCongeniality
It's no coincidence that my account is approximately as old as the movie Miss Congeniality.
Been on Newgrounds even before 2001 on a different alias. I will be bringing some of my future film work here.

Randy @MrCongeniality

Age 36, Male

Technical Support

School of Hard Knox

Utah, USA

Joined on 6/7/01

Level:
15
Exp Points:
2,196 / 2,500
Exp Rank:
27,170
Vote Power:
5.66 votes
Rank:
Safety Patrol
Global Rank:
27,193
Blams:
205
Saves:
154
B/P Bonus:
6%
Whistle:
Normal
Trophies:
3
Medals:
43
Supporter:
1y 1m 1d
Gear:
4

It's obvious, Stamper and JohnnyUtah are testing us

Posted by MrCongeniality - January 11th, 2009


This is a scream. Stamper and JohnnyUtah create shape movie submissions, you know, just a movie of two shapes talking to each other, featuring great voice-overs but hardly any animation or graphical stuff. Just very basic.

Seems as though dozens of users have followed suit and created their own, me being one of them (my submission here).

But it's obvious that Stamper and JohnnyUtah set out to test all of us on something: regardless of the movie's shitty qualities, would it still get a ridiculously high score because they are popular, well-known, established NG artists?

Now, I believe it is true, established artists on NG like Stamper and JohnnyUtah may get high scores for their movies, regardless of the content within them. Another example is that another well known artist followed suit as well (movie link, it's HILARIOUS), and got a 3.75. I'm seeing other submissions (besides mine) just as good, getting a 2.5 or lower.

So this raises a question: What the fuck is going on?!

(Can't think of a more intelligent question because I'm speechless!)


Comments

I hate the fact, Ego's is higher than theirs.

laaaaaaaaaame.

Ego's is pretty damn funny, though.

Where have you been? This has been going on since 1999.

They're just exploiting the fact that anyone can get anyting passed judgement in Newgrounds. Personally, I think the time between submitting submissions should be drasticly increased to prevent crap, and the threshold for passing should be upped to atleast 2.

Better control on people making new accounts with the same IP should be implemented as well. Heck, I could make 5 alts and submit 12 submissions consisting of the same thing, and have each and every one pass.

Nice, you should make one of those shape animations, except it's really in depth, and looks like you actually put a shitload of work and time into it. Almost realistic looking.

Also, your story made me cough up a lung. You win a Riiiiicolaaaa.

I already made a shape movie. lol

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/
view/478203

I think you are right. It all makes sense now. They've discussed fanboys and inflated scores before, but now they ran an experiment to see if it was true.

If it was a test, then we failed.